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Can Jose Tabata Develop More Power?

Found February 04, 2012 on The "Mc" Effect: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Jose Tabata
TEAMS: Pittsburgh Pirates

"Jose Tabata has a big league bat capable of Manny Ramirez type numbers."That's a quote from a scouting report on Tabata from 2007. Coming up, nobody really knew what to make of Tabata's power potential, but most scouts realized that it was certainly there. Now he's played 193 big league games and has just eight home runs. A career .284/.348/.383 triple-slash line is far from Manny Ramirez comparison, but fortunately Tabata is far from fully developed at the ripe age of 23.So will Tabata develop more power in the next few years? Yeah, almost certainly, the question is how much more. Here's Tabata's spray charts from the previous two years:When Tabata goes deep, he often goes really deep. Last year he hit home runs with distances of 401, 387, 417, and 411 chronologically. You can see from the graph that he also has some opposite field power.There's no doubt that Tabata has power in that bat, he just doesn't seem to be able to use it very freque...
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